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Kamal Hassan’s ‘Vishwaroopam’ enters 100 crore club

Released amidst controversy in various parts of India, Kamal
Hassan’s multi-crore project ‘Vishwaroopam’ has done an exceptional business at
the box-office and crossed 100 crore mark in just five days. Apart from Kamal
Hassan, the movie stars Pooja Kumar, Rahul Bose, Andrea Jeremiah and Shekhar Kapur in the
pivotal role.

Highly thrilled with the number, actor Rahul Bose tweeted
"Just received figures of the all india box office collections of
vishwaroopam. 120 crores and counting. Superb!
Vishwaroopam's the first film I've been a part of that's made over 100 crores.
Congratulatuions to the team and mr haasan especially!"

‘Vishwaroopam’ is released in multi language. The movie has
soundtrack by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and lyrics has been penned by Vairamuthu for
South Indian language and Javed Akhtar translated them for the Hindi viewers.

The film saw protest from the Muslim communities. It was
banned in Andra Pradesh, Karnataka and in Tamil Nadu. While the banned was
taken off by the protesters from AP and Karnataka but the film saw a delay
release in TM. In TM the film was released in February 7th. The Muslims
claimed that there are scenes in ‘Vishwaroopam’s which showed them in bad
lights. Few scenes were also cut from the film to make suitable for viewers.

Kamal Hassan was very disturbed due to the whole controversy
over his film but he received huge support from his fans and film fraternities from Bollywood.

Kamal Hassan also announced that he would soon start working on ‘Vishwaroopam 2’.